Moral Orel is an American stop-motion
animated television show, which originally aired on Adult
Swim from December 13, 2005 to December 18, 2008. The show is
rated TV-MA
due to its strong sexual references and dark, satirical humor.

At the 2008 San
Diego Comic Con, Stamatopoulos announced that the show would
not be renewed for a fourth season.[3]
The final season was aired interspersed with repeats of the first
two in an event named "44 Nights of Orel" hosted by
Stamatopoulos and others since many of the episodes took place in
parallel with events of past episodes. The event started on
October 6, 2008, and ran until the series finale, which aired on
December 18, 2008.

General overview

The program takes place in the fictional city of Moralton, in
the fictional U.S.
state "Statesota",
which is made up of most of Kansas,
western Missouri,
north Oklahoma,
and a portion of Arkansas.
According to the globe shown in the opening credits, Moralton is
in the exact center of the United States with the town's church
(presumably) at the exact center of the country. The globe also
has the United States as its own continent on its own hemisphere.
The rest of the North American continent and South America are
present, but on the other side of the globe.

The main character is Orel, a student at Alfred G Diorama
Elementary School, who constantly tries to live by the show's
description of the Protestant Christian moral
code. Meanwhile, he interacts with townspeople whose behavior
includes mocking homosexuals, teaching their children to close
their minds to anything non-Christian, racism, disavowing rational
scientific explanations of the universe's origins as fiction and
heresy, distancing themselves from nature, dehumanizing
non-Christian faiths, and mocking the Catholic
Church.

Most episodes of the first season had a similar formula: Orel
would hear a sermon in church on Sunday, then proceed to have some
sort of misadventure based on his attempts to live by that lesson.
However, later episodes began to depart from this tradition. The
second season began to explore the backgrounds of several
characters in Moralton and even incorporated much more serious
ideas. In the second season finale "Nature", the show
pushed the characters to a point so detrimental that it
transformed the show entirely. The following season focused on the
events leading up to "Nature" and some of the aftermath,
as well.

Following the series premiere, The
Best Christmas Ever, the Adult Swim message boards
received numerous posts (later reproduced on promotional bumps)
from viewers believing that the show was too ludicrous to be an
actual program and that it was aired as a joke.[citation
needed] Although The Best Christmas Ever
aired first, it was produced to be the season finale. It aired out
of order to coincide with the Christmas season.

Three episodes of the first season were held back because
Cartoon Network's Standards
& Practices found them to be too dark and explicitly
sexually crude even for Adult Swim (one episode centered on Orel
drinking alcohol in order to be more adult, the second centered on
Orel and his new friend beating up two boys who are presumably
homosexual, and the last was centered on Orel using his sperm to
impregnate the women in town without having sex with them after
being reprimanded for masturbating and letting his sperm go to
waste, which, according to Moralton, was a sin). Two were approved
for air in May 2006, with the last "banned" episode
airing July 31, 2006.

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Orel is the main character of the show. He is an 11 (later
12)-year-old boy whose quest is how to be moral and good, which
drives most of the plots of the episodes. He collects religious action
figures and makes short animated movies with them. In his
attempts to remain moral, he listens to Reverend Putty's sermons
very closely. Even though he's very attentive and always means
well, Orel tends to misinterpret the minister's teachings, leading
to chaos for both him and the town.

In addition to having an uncanny talent for interpreting
religious doctrine literally and drastically changing his belief
systems on a weekly basis, Orel possesses many other skills. He is
a practiced necromancer,
and he has considerable prowess in physical combat: he is able to
defeat his own father in a fight. His sexual stamina is seemingly
without limit, as he was able to forcibly impregnate a large
portion of the town on very short order, with help from a pastry
bag. Orel is also a natural businessman, having made large amounts
of money selling his urine as an energy drink and (unknowingly)
pimping out the women of Sinville to the sexually repressed men of
Moralton.

One of the show's aspects was Orel's slow awakening to the
flaws of the people around him, as well as expanding his personal
belief system beyond the rigid fundamentalist Christian doctrine
of the town. In "Praying", Orel defies his father's
orders and uses Buddhist meditation to deal with his stress. In
"Charity", Orel became a full-fledged drug addict. In
"Orel's Movie Premiere", Orel uses rather harsh
portrayals of the people around him in his home movies, most
notably portraying his father as a sadistic, drunken snarling wolf
(leading Dr. Potterswheel to ask Clay if he was molesting his son,
to have Orel see him as such a monster).

After a disastrous sequence of events in the two-part season
two finale "Nature", wherein Clay shoots Orel in the leg
and denies fault for it (as Clay had been drunk at the time, and
so did not remember it), Orel loses all respect for his father.
This culminated in Orel not only telling his father for the first
time that he hates him, but also him lying to Clay when Clay shows
more concern over the pride he feels over Orel killing a bear, an
act for which Orel denies responsibility. Later on, after
"Nature", Orel is still cheerful towards the
townspeople, but incredibly emotionally distant towards Clay. As a
result of the shooting (and likely Dr. Potterswheel's incompetent
job in healing the leg), Orel gets a permanent limp, which Dino
Stamotopolus said would have been kept throughout the series had
it continued (and is indeed shown in the show's final scene of an
adult Orel).

In the series finale, Orel realizes the true nature of his
father's relationship with Coach Stopframe, though the realization
doesn't bother him much. A scene from adult Orel's life, seen at
the end of the series finale, shows that he ultimately becomes a
much better man than his father ever was, marrying his childhood
sweetheart Christina Posabule and maintaining a loving, happy
family with two kids and a puppy.

Clay is Orel's strict father who tries to keep his home in line
with a 1950s
style of living. This masks the fact that Clay is an abusive alcoholic
who hates his job as mayor of Moralton, his marriage, his
children, and his father. He is more often than not portrayed as
the show's main villain.

As a child, Clay was the only child of his parents. Clay's
mother was a religious zealot, who spoiled Clay rotten and
instructed him in the various "lost commandments" of
Moses. This created tension with Clay's father, who was outright
neglected by his wife in favor of his son, to the point that he
was forced to eat his son's leftovers. Clay's life collapsed
however when he faked his own death as a prank on his mother,
causing her to have a heart attack. Clay's father (who was not
deeply religious) never forgave Clay for his part in his mother's
death and emotionally shunned his son, ultimately telling him that
he "wasn't worth it" as far as refusing to slap his son.
This deeply affected Clay, causing him to seek out his father's
abuse (in the form of his father slapping his son in the face in
anger) as a means to gain any sort of emotional response. His love
for his mother would develop into an Oedipus Complex many years
later, shown in "Nesting."

When Clay was in his early twenties, he was shown to be a
rather mild figure who wanted to spend his days studying the bible
and drinking apple juice. While attending a wedding, Clay met
Bloberta Hymentact. The two went on a date after the wedding,
where Bloberta introduced Clay to liquor. Alcohol caused a massive
switch in Clay's personality, turning him into a womanizer and
drunken partier and ultimately caused Bloberta to punch him
unconscious in order to keep him from flirting with other women.
Afterwords, Bloberta lied to Clay, telling him that he passed out
and that she looked after him while he was unconscious. She then
pressed him to marry her, citing that he needs someone like her to
"help" him. Clay agreed, but by this point the damage
was done as Clay was now a full-blown alcoholic who spent most of
his wedding flirting with other women, getting drunk, and
ultimately getting arrested after the wedding for driving under
the influence.

Clay largely hates his family, not remembering his children's
names or caring when one of his children (Shapey) is briefly
switched with another child. This is taken to an extreme in the
episode Numb when he assumes Shapey and Block are an liquor
induced hallucination. (He sees Shapey playing and then Block
playing. He apprears confused, looks at his drink shrugs and
continues walking.) He is rather misogynistic, and forces his wife
Bloberta to cook and clean all day long, as he believes that
that's all women should ever do, and because it sexually arouses
him. He is close friends with Coach Danielle Stopframe, who
secretly lusts after Clay. It has been shown that Stopframe is
Clay's chief enabler as far as feeding his dependency on liquor
and went as far as to seduce and impregnate Clay's wife Bloberta
in order to be near him.

He'll often bring Orel into his study to discuss Orel's various
misdeeds after dealing out "a good belting" to the boy.
The lessons typically have little to do with the actual damage he
caused, usually focusing on "the lesser of two evils".
For example, when confronting Orel for raising the dead, Clay is
more concerned with the fact that Orel created naked zombies (by
removing their clothes prior to resurrecting them) than for
actually creating zombies.

He also has a collection of firearms in his study, including a Heckler
& Koch PSG1 sniper rifle and what is revealed in
"Nature Pt.1" to be an extensive arsenal.
During a mostly unsuccessful camping trip with Orel, a drunk Clay
rants violently about how awful his life is and then accidentally
shoots Orel but denies any responsibility. He would apparently
sink even lower when, in "Honor", it's revealed that
he's continued to blame Orel for the injury, telling anyone who
asked that it had happened because his son was either clumsy or
that he'd gotten in the way.

The end result is that while Clay tries to maintain that his
life is perfectly happy, he's ultimately a pathetic, oafish,
self-centered man who has no love for anyone other than himself.
He blames the town for making Orel sensitive. He rants harshly
about women and relationship. He tried to prove life is terrible
by tring to get people to hit him but the town people walk away,
he felt defeated on the attempt.

Clay often complains about his "dead-end job" and
being "buried in paperwork". In the penultimate episode,
it is revealed, to even Orel's surprise, that Clay is actually the
Mayor of Moralton. On a document in his office his full name is
shown to be Clayton Middleinitial Puppington.

In "Honor", Clay finally admits his feelings for
Coach Stopframe, in front of his wife, his children and Orel.
Stopframe, however, coldly rejects him. Clay leaves dejected. A
picture of him and Bloberta both frowning is seen on the wall in
the final scene, a stark contrast to Orel and Christina. (At the
end of the series Clay ultimately pays the price of the mistakes
he made which he'll never realize.)

Bloberta (née Hymentact) is Orel's mother. The
forgotten and shunned middle child of a family choir (forbidden
from participating due to her mother's blatant favoritism for her
older sister and younger brother and failure to stand up for
herself), Bloberta manipulated Clay Puppington into marrying her,
largely as a means to escape her family and to be accepted by her
ring-flaunting friends. After her marriage to Clay, however, her
life becomes worse than before. She is a strict, stereotypical
housekeeper known for her obsessive-compulsive cleanliness (she
once complained about her cleaning product containers being
dirty); the episode "Help" reveals that Bloberta turned
to cleaning as a replacement for her habit of drinking as a means
of coping with her mother's disdain for her.

Bloberta and Clay have a very strained relationship, with
Bloberta often shown to be emotionally distant towards Clay
(although at times she acts somewhat nice to him by calling him
"dear"). In "The Best Christmas Ever" they get
in an argument that ends with Clay walking out on her on Christmas
morning; the two eventually reunite, though only out of concern
for what the other Moraltonians would think if they separated. The
episode "Numb" reveals that Bloberta hasn't had a proper
orgasm in years and has mutilated her genitals through the use of
various power tools for masturbation. She even attempts to find a
sexual partner while Clay leaves with Orel for their ill-fated
hunting trip, only to be thwarted by the various men of Moralton
having no interest in her whatsoever. (Which becomes like her
rejection when she was home with her family.) When asked by Orel
why she married Clay, she simply responds "Why not?"
instead of giving an actual reason, only to break down crying upon
leaving Orel's room.

During the first season, she comes across as a distant,
disengaged parent. She mirrors her mother's favoritism in the way
she treats her second son Shapey, (possibly her mother might have
an affair with someone else resluting with her younger brother
having red hair instead of brown.) who is the result of an
extramarital affair Bloberta had had with Orel's bisexual gym
teacher Coach Stopframe. Bloberta spoils Shapey rotten, largely as
a means to silence his constant temper tantrums, and frequently
orders Orel to let Shapey get his way even when Shapey's wishes
put him or Orel at risk for injury. For not discipline Shapey
makes her and Clay bad parents. However, after Clay finds out the
truth about Shapey, Bloberta begins to turn away from her bastard
son, ultimately not noticing for several months after he is
accidentally switched with another child, Block Posabule.

While she can at times seem very uncaring toward Orel, she is
never nearly as abusive to him as Clay. She also displays a
somewhat maternal side to Orel, such as knitting campaign signs
for him so he could help a mayoral candidate, or making him
breakfast. She also shows a little concern for Orel when he is
shot (though she never confronts Clay about the incident) and when
he is absent while the family goes Christmas caroling in
"Honor". Orel also has always held her in relative good
regards throughout the show, believing Clay to be the primary
reason for the family's dysfunction. (Unknow to Orel that Bloberta
created this family's dysfunction.) Overall, Bloberta deeply
regrets the mistake she made in marrying Clay, but does have love
for Orel deep down in her heart.

In "Honor", she is none too pleased when Clay admits
his love for Coach Stopframe. When Orel grows up, she is shown in
a picture on the wall alongside Clay, both of them older and
frowning, implying they are still unhappily married.

Shapey Puppington, Orel's seven-year-old half-brother, is a
misbehaving, spoiled, and emotionally stunted little boy who does
nothing but yell, complain, and act out. His parents do nothing to
stop this, preferring to let him have what he wants so he'll stay
quiet (they don't want their neighbors thinking they're bad
parents). It is first indicated in "The Best Christmas
Ever" that he is an illegitimate child. His biological father
is conclusively revealed in "Numb" to be Coach Stopframe,
who had only formed a relationship with Bloberta to get closer to
Clay.

In the season two episode "The Lord's Prayer", Shapey
is accidentally switched with the oddly similar Block Posabule,
the son of the Puppingtons' new neighbors. The main difference
between the two is their hair color (Block is a redhead, while
Shapey is blond) and head shape (Shapey's head is round while
Block's is more thin); their behaviors are largely the same. For a
while, the switch is noticed only by Orel and, as revealed later,
by Block's sister Christina, though their attempts to notify their
respective families are invariably ignored. In the episode
"Numb", Bloberta finally figures out after going through
a family album that Shapey is actually Block. When she goes to the
Posabules' house to retrieve him, however, Mrs. Posabule returns
Shapey but also abandons Block, forcing Bloberta to take them
both. (Clay's obliviousness persists for a while longer; he chalks
up the apparition of a second 'Shapey' in his house to his drink
and shrugs the matter off.) At the end of the episode
"Sacrifice", Shapey speaks calmly for the first time,
telling Bloberta, "Mommy, when I'm thirsty, it feels how I
feel when I'm alone."

In the ending scene of "Honor" it is indicated that
they have both grown up into functional adults, with photographs
showing that Shapey has become a police officer and Block a
firefighter.

Shapey and Block are both voiced by Tigger Stamatopoulos, the
daughter of the show's creator and executive producer Dino
Stamatopoulos.

Rod Putty is the minister for the local church and wears a very
obvious toupee. He is a very lonely and bitter individual who is
held in both high esteem and disdain by the citizens (case in
point: his house is egged on Halloween). His disdain for God often
finds its way into his sermons, and he has a coffee cup in his
office stating "I hate my boss," though sometimes it
says "...and then you die." His resentment stems from
being a prematurely balding virgin. Putty has also displayed some
racist tendencies, such as leading the segregation of the
Figurellis and showing no interest in dating non-white women. The
episode "Elemental Orel" implies that he was planning to
use the money from the church collection plate to hire a
prostitute. Eventually, he is approached for a lunch date by
Stephanie, Moralton's resident punk-rocking piercing shop
proprietor. Thinking he is about to get lucky, he is soon
devastated to learn that she is his daughter, resulting from a
spinster stealing his semen from a used tissue. He however comes
around and accepts this relationship, offering some happiness for
a change. After the events of "Presents for God", in
which Orel introduces the reverend to a prostitute, apparently
loses his virginity and starts smoking cigarettes. In
"Alone", it is also revealed that he hosts his own radio
show. Due to his cynicism, Putty is slightly more rational than
the rest of the townspeople, though of course, this is only
relative to the blind fanaticism of most Moralton residents. As
the seasons have gone on, his character has evolved to a more
laid-back and more accepting person, to the point he is accepting
of his daughter's lifestyle and has been even been imparting
fatherly advice and joking around with her. Unsurprisingly, he is
the only one who notices that while Orel is a good person, and
means well, the faulty advice he and the other adults of the town
give him always leads to him taking it to a high extremes,
creating havoc in the town. He is voiced by William
Salyers.

Doughy Latchkey is Orel's best friend. He is very God-fearing
and always tries to look out for Orel, though he usually just
winds up following Orel's lead. He is very fearful and not very
bright; as a result, he is often indecisive and consistently fails
to stand up for himself when pressed (such as by letting Orel and
Joe throw rocks at his dad's car). In Courtship, Doughy's
home life was revealed. His parents are a red-headed
(stereotypical) jock and a blonde (stereotypical) cheerleader, who
appear quite young and may or may not be Doughy's biological
parents (though they may be older than they act; they are revealed
in "Closeface" to be contemporaries of the sex-shop
proprietor, Stephanie, who is presumably not a high school
student, as she operates and possibly owns a sex-toy store). Orel
seems to be the only one who notices the difference between how
his own parents treat him and how Doughy is treated by his
parents. He points out that Doughy's parents never call him
"son" or give him affection. His last name,
"Latchkey," is a reference to the neglect Doughy suffers
from his parents, who, being very affectionate toward each other,
usually pay Doughy cash to get out of their hair, lock him outside
the house and hide the key so they can have sex without their son
around. He has never been seen without his beanie
and has rapid mood swings from despondent
to cheerful. In Trigger, it was revealed that he has a gift
for marksmanship,
evidently stemming from his belief that he and his actions don't
matter. He tried to be part of Orel's family, only to be use to
get Orel to shot better and Clay throws Doughy aside. Doughy feels
like a loser ever since and in "Honor" he gets bullied
in gym everyday. He is voiced by Scott
Adsit.

This 2 disc boxset contains the first 15 episodes of the
series, uncensored, and in production order (The Lord's
Greatest Gift through Offensiveness). Special
features include a director's
cut version of Gods Chef, deleted
scenes, a "behind the scenes" featurette,
and an edited for content (to remove footage from other
Adult Swim shows) video of the Adult Swim 2006 Comic-Con
panel.[4]

Most original music for the show is created by musician Mark
Rivers. A number of the songs heard throughout the show have been
posted to the official Adult Swim download
site.

Moral Orel has also featured music by other artists. The first
season featured "Other People's Tongues" by the Dan
Emery Mystery Band in Episode 105 - The Blessed Union.

The second season featured the songs "Saturday" by IO
Perry in Episode 13 - Satan, "Head & Heart" by Tom
Bell in Episode 20 - The Blessed Union, and "You" by
Peter Blood in Episode 25 - Courtship.

The third season prominently featured music by The
Mountain Goats including "No Children", "Old
College Try", and "Love Love Love" in Episode 301 -
Numb, Episode 307 - Help, and Episode 308 - Passing, respectively.
The third season also featured the songs "Failsafe" by
The Choir Practice in Episode 306 - Dumb, "Closeface" by
Dino Stamotopolous in Episode 309 - Closeface, "Bottomless
Pit" by Savoy in Episode 311 - Sacrifice, and
"Valentine" by IO Perry in the series finale, Honor.

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